Friendly Advice: Tip 2

2.) It’s hard to identify as a socialist when you think everyone else is stupid and lazy. That may seem obvious, but if I encounter one more vapid hipster who derides everyone who does not have access to a vast array of media sources, a coop full of organic food, a functional public transportation system, and well-paying non-corporate jobs, my head might seriously explode. People who do not know what Marx had to say about the capitalist system are not lazy. People who work at Wal-Mart are not retarded. People who live in rural areas are not inherently ugly, fat, inbred, and racist. The proletarian revolution IS NOT going to alight in the inner city because you—skinny, white, upper-middle-class scholar—soapbox to other skinny, white, upper-middle class scholars about the inevitable collapse of the global economy. You want universal health care and free, quality public education? Terrific, but try not to turn up your nose in disgust every time you see a working mother drive her kids through the Wendy’s. You have to share this world with everyone else who lives in it, therefore castigating others for being unlike yourself only leads to snobbery, small-mindedness and bigotry. And for the record, whenever you make a statement about ___ people getting what they deserve, try substituting the word “poor” for ____and see what you sound like.